At 17:12 4/27/2002, John I wrote:
>Fount is the traditional British spelling of font. Since the advent of
>digital typography, font has become pretty much universal, but older
>English sources use the spelling fount.
This is actually something that came up in the (still ongoing) typesetting
of the new book _Language Culture Type : international type design in the
age of Unicode_. One of the British contributors had used the fount
spelling in her essay, but she agreed that this would confuse most readers
today, even in Britain.
A feature article about the production of this books -- which has some
embarassingly flattering things to say about yours truly -- is online at
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/16415.html
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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